>Thanks for the reply Gerald. I am working on a program that copies files from a specified directory into a table. Every 5 seconds we check if there are appropriate files in the specified directory. (using adir command) If there is then we copy the files to the table. But before that we have to wait another 5 seconds because its possible that the file is there but it is not complete. I actually asked my boss the exact same question.
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Chris,

Instead of a second timer, try something like this:

*: Found a file, wait 5 seconds to be sure it's complete
LOCAL tTime
tTime = DateTime()
DO WHILE DateTime() < tTime + 5
ENDDO

Or, to save processor time for other programs, you can use the Windows API Sleep().

DECLARE Sleep IN Win32API INTEGER nMilliseconds

Then in your timer event

=Sleep(5000)

See WindowsAPI#12645 in the UT for more information.